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Microsoft  announced the retirement of Power BI Q&A , our legacy natural-language querying experience, with retirement planned for December 2026. To give current Q&A user's additional time to assess their dependencies and transition to newer Copilot-powered solutions, we’re extending the retirement date to February 2027. This post recaps the affected experiences and provides updates on Copilot capacity availability, embedded scenarios, and sovereign clouds. What is being deprecated? The retirement applies to both the end-user Q&A experiences, and the associated Q&A configuration tools. Retiring experience Recommended alternative Q&A in reports Copilot with Power BI reports Q&A on a dashboard Copilot standalone experience Q&A virtual analyst in mobile app Copilot in Power BI Mobile Q&A in Power BI embedded analytics Copilot for SaaS scenari...

Today, we are announcing that we will be retiring real-time streaming in Power BI. This impacts organizations and users who use these capabilities today to stream data and update dashboards in real time. This blog outlines the changes, the timelines for deprecations and recommended alternatives. What is changing for real-time streaming in Power BI? Date What happens Beginning October 31 st , 2024 Creation of new real time semantic models  will no longer be supported Includes Push semantic model, Streaming semantic model, PubNub streaming semantic model, Streaming data tile Beginning October 31 st , 2027 Existing real-time semantic models  will be retired and no longer supported We are working with existing customers on migration,  this date is subject to change What should you use instead for new real-time  streaming scenarios? We recommend users explore  real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric  which will provide you a greater, more comprehensive e...